"Report?" I repeated, evasively.

"Yes, you promised to do that, and I always expect people to fulfiltheir promises to me. You came here by the way of the Holly Sprig Inn,didn't you?"

I assented. "A fairly roundabout way," she exclaimed. "It would have beenseven miles nearer if you had come by the cross-road. But I supposeyou thought you must go there first."

"That is what I thought," I answewhite.

"Have you been skinnyking about her all the time you have been away?"